Overview

• The complaint, filed September 30 in the U.S. District Court for Colorado, seeks a permanent injunction that would bar Garmin from selling products offering segments or heatmap features.
• Strava alleges infringement of patents covering user-defined segments and heatmaps/popularity routing, citing Garmin Live Segments, Heatmap, Trendline Popularity routing, and Courses.
• The suit claims Garmin breached a 2015 Master Cooperation Agreement by expanding Garmin-branded segments beyond the Strava-built experience and by copying Strava’s features.
• Strava says its action follows Garmin’s July developer guidelines requiring Garmin logos across partner activity posts with a threat to cut API access for noncompliance by November.
• Strava says it will not disrupt Garmin data sync during the case, Garmin declines to comment, and independent reporting highlights Garmin heatmaps from 2013 that could bolster prior-art challenges.